Boudica's Odyssey in Early Modern England
| By: | Frénée-Hutchins, Samantha, Dr |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9781472424617 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781472424631 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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This diachronic study of Boudica serves as a sourcebook of references to Boudica in the early modern period and gives an overview of the ways in which her story was processed and exploited by the different players of the times who wanted to give credence and support to their own belief systems. The author examines the different apparatus of state ideology which processed the social, religious and political representations of Boudica for public absorption and helped form the popular myth we have of Boudica today.
By exploring images of the Briton warrior queen across two reigns which witnessed an act of political union and a move from English female rule (under Elizabeth I) to British/Scottish masculine rule (under James VI